Analysis of When A Lover Clasps His Fairest
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I.
When a lover clasps his fairest,
Then be our dread sport the rarest.
Their caresses were like the chaff
In the tempest, and be our laugh
His despair—her epitaph!
II.
When a mother clasps her child,
Watch till dusty Death has piled
His cold ashes on the clay;
She has loved it many a day--
She remains,—it fades away.
| Scheme | AXXBBB ACCDDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1 10101110 111011010 10100101 001001101 101010 1 1010101 1110111 1110101 11111001 1011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 321 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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